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Can we delete Disk_objects.log file in Splunk Universal Forwarder ?

Venkat_16 — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 10:58:33 GMT

We have only 2 GB of minimum disk space allocated for Splunk universal forwarder and my envirnoment team has asked to reduce the size consumed. I cleared splunk internal logs and also changes limit.conf but i found disk._objects file consuming more space. Is it safe to delete the file. the splunk version we are using is 7.0.0

Re: Can we delete Disk_objects.log file in Splunk Universal Forwarder ?

p_gurav — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:51:58 GMT

Can you check,:

The introspection generator add-on iin the forwarder's $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/introspection_generator_addon/local/app.conf,

[install]
state = enabled

You can disable it if you don't want this data.

Refer doc:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.3/Troubleshooting/Whatdatagetslogged

Re: Can we delete Disk_objects.log file in Splunk Universal Forwarder ?

Venkat_16 — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 15:12:18 GMT

But does it cause any harm to the forwarder like if we clear fish bucket data, the forwarder will re-index the past stuff, similarly if we remove those files, does it cause any issue.

thanks for your support

Re: Can we delete Disk_objects.log file in Splunk Universal Forwarder ?

p_gurav — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 15:47:14 GMT

According to doc it is disabled by default. In your environment those log may enabled for troubleshooting purpose. But yes you can disable it.